The Flatlands
The Flatlands are an area of the dump that has been cleaned up and pounded flat. Underneath the surface the trash remains. Only the first few feet are solid, with a dozen or so feet in most places of compacted trash underneath. It is covered in a white and brown dust of pulverized garbage, compacted down into a flat surface. The dust fills all the spaces between the trash making the ground seem solid. This dust doesn't reach the lower layers of trash, making the ground prone to occasional shifts.
The area was originally part of the dunes, but two centuries of scavengers from Feast has cleared everything useful from the area. In Year 23 the Vested Council of Feast to created a force to flatten the land into something usable. Over the next 26 years the team would dig, mulch and flatten everything for about 150 miles around the city.
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